Keith Althaus is the author of four previous poetry collections, Rival Heavens (1993), Ladder of Hours (2005), and Cold Storage, winner of the 2016 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. He has received a Pushcart Prize as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Foundation of the Arts. In 1969 he was one of the first Writing Fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, the artist Susan Baker.